The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
Nothing is small if God accepts it.
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.